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Originally Posted by WestCoastGuy
I know that everyone here knows this, but I'll say it anyway.
Baseball teams go through ups and downs, and hot streaks and slumps that take place in July are quickly forgotten, but ones that occur in October are extensively overanalyzed.
It didn't take me all that long of time being a baseball fan to figure that out and realize that there was no being "good enough" to win the World Series. You had to be good enough to get to the postseason and then hope that you had good timing on your side.
The first MLB season that I followed closely was 1985, and I remember as a kid being so confused as to how the Cardinals were so much better than the Royals during the regular season but then lost the World Series.
But it was years following the Giants when I realized that playoff games are not all that different from regular-season games as far as hot streaks and slumps go. You just have to hope for good timing in October as far as which you are going through then.
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Yep. Crossing sports, it goes along with what Bucks' coach Mike Budenholzer said after being eliminated by the Celtics last year in their title defense and being asked if he thought having Kris Middleton available would've made a difference (paraphrasing): "To win a championship you have to be good, you have to be lucky, and you have to be healthy."